As many as 3.3 crore fake, ghost and duplicate LPG connections have been blocked, leading to saving of Rs 21,000 crore in subsidies, said oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

"When we assumed office (in 2014), we had a system of misdirected subsidies, rich and upper middle class were entitled to LPG subsidies. There were many duplicate connections and the subsidised LPG was diverted to commercial and industrial segments," he said, addressing the Asia LPG Summit organized by World LPG Association here.

As a result, poorest of the poor never had access to LPG. In 2014, almost half of Indian households didn't have LPG connections.
Pradhan said the Direct Benefit Transfer of LPG was launched in 2014 wherein subsidy was directly paid into the bank accounts of the beneficiaries.
"This made the process transparent and plugged the subsidy leakages which was otherwise being misused through ghost accounts," he said.

The scheme is benefiting over 176 million consumers and over Rs 40,000 crore or $6.5 billion of subsidy has been transferred directly to the beneficiaries bank accounts in the last two years.
"It has also resulted in estimated saving of over Rs 21,000 crore or $3.2 billion in two years to the government," he said.

Pradhan said an intensive exercise was also carried out for identifying duplicate, fake, ghost and inactive domestic LPG connections. As on April 1, 2015, 33.4 million connections were identified and blocked, saving Rs 21,000 crore subsidy in 2014-15 and 2015-16.

The minister said 12 million have voluntarily given up subsidies to provide under-privileged access to LPG.

Koi kuch bhi kahe, public has showed a lot of common sense accepting notebandi. Only people like bajaj etc are dissing it. Even the sex workers have no problem but their Dallas or bhadvas are complaining

GDP figure is out and govt claims 7%. Immediately khangrezs questions the veracity. Dumbos will not accept anything that is against their narrative of DeMo. Where are all the leftist chutiyas with western degrees painting a doomsday?

Met a couple of British origin guys at work, they said they love India, have been to Delhi and Agra 2 years back.. they are excited about Modi and his pro-business agenda.

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GDP figure is out and govt claims 7%. Immediately khangrezs questions the veracity. Dumbos will not accept anything that is against their narrative of DeMo. Where are all the leftist chutiyas with western degrees painting a doomsday?

A left wing or congress guy would respond as "See British Imperialists live Modi"

Now news comes as - "Modi is going to visit Israel"

Me thinks " He visits so many countries. What's new in this."

Then it says "He is the first Indian PM to visit Israel"
Now realized that PVN and ABV also never visited Israel.

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